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Burne Hogarth's anatomy books are recommended by artists in the industry. Stan Lee & John Buscema's How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way. Look at some of the collections of older strips by people like Al Capp and Milton Caniff.

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Burne Hogarth's anatomy books are recommended by artists in the industry. Stan Lee & John Buscema's How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way. Look at some of the collections of older strips by people like Al Capp and Milton Caniff.

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Zenguru wrote:Burne Hogarth's anatomy books are recommended by artists in the industry. Stan Lee & John Buscema's How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way. Look at some of the collections of older strips by people like Al Capp and Milton Caniff.

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Zenguru wrote:Burne Hogarth's anatomy books are recommended by artists in the industry. Stan Lee & John Buscema's How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way. Look at some of the collections of older strips by people like Al Capp and Milton Caniff.

rubber spoon

I recommend this book too. It's not hard, and it focuses on one key element of drawing: how to see things.You'll learn how to see; how to really experience an object in front of you and how not to cloud your experience with your thinking. Seeing is something that is surprisingly hard to do, as you'll find out for yourself.

I recommend this book too. It's not hard, and it focuses on one key element of drawing: how to see things.You'll learn how to see; how to really experience an object in front of you and how not to cloud your experience with your thinking. Seeing is something that is surprisingly hard to do, as you'll find out for yourself.

rubber spoon

Before learning how to draw a specific type of objects, you need to learn how to draw. And that's what Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain teaches you, I think. Classes on figure drawing don't have to teach you how to draw, they just have to teach how to draw figures. So you might not get the idea of how to draw, just the idea of how to draw figures, unless they have within them a focus on how to draw (in which case they shouldn't call the class only, "Figure Drawing," I think).I think if you learn how to see things, you won't really need classes to learn how to draw those things, but you might need them in order to study those particular things; you'll draw them easily as long as the images of them are stuck in your head, be they figures, bones, cats, clouds, muscles, faces, hair, plants, buildings, etc...

One key element to drawing is seeing. Another is definitely getting a good memory. Both of which, unfortunately, require a ton of practice. But they can be done, and you will be excellent if you work.

rubber spoon

Before learning how to draw a specific type of objects, you need to learn how to draw. And that's what Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain teaches you, I think. Classes on figure drawing don't have to teach you how to draw, they just have to teach how to draw figures. So you might not get the idea of how to draw, just the idea of how to draw figures, unless they have within them a focus on how to draw (in which case they shouldn't call the class only, "Figure Drawing," I think).I think if you learn how to see things, you won't really need classes to learn how to draw those things, but you might need them in order to study those particular things; you'll draw them easily as long as the images of them are stuck in your head, be they figures, bones, cats, clouds, muscles, faces, hair, plants, buildings, etc...

One key element to drawing is seeing. Another is definitely getting a good memory. Both of which, unfortunately, require a ton of practice. But they can be done, and you will be excellent if you work.